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The use of personal portfolios for assessment and presentation long has been a component of higher education. In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities. Now, electronic portfolios have begun to enter the world of K-12 education as well.-Mary Daniels Brown with Education World. This website builds on our learning and use of digital portfolios for ourselves to show how to use them with our students. We will learn how to do our own, and can then help our students in the future.

This is a great site to visit. The Fleming County Schools break down digital access and digital health and wellness. It gives descriptions of what each are and gives great examples of what each one consist of. It also explains the importance's of each topic.

The internet makes many everyday tasks faster and more convenient, like shopping, researching products, banking, searching for health information, and communicating on the go. Get tips for being safe and making the most of your time online

This site is a good digital citizen site because it shows different ways to show good internet etiquette. This site is more of a secure your computer site. It can help you keep your computer from getting a virus and it can also get a virus off of your computer. It shows how you can be more smart online and also shows ways to protect your kids.

The internet makes many everyday tasks faster and more convenient, like shopping, researching products, banking, searching for health information, and communicating on the go. Get tips for being safe and making the most of your time online.

This article gives descriptions of many different types of whales. It is easy to read and gives students a lot of needed information to write a paper or create a project over the different types of whales

This site includes a review and test of Weebly, our tech tool of the week. It has a chart that gives direct commentary on different aspects of Weebly sites. It is very helpful it you are trying to compare different blogs to use.

Website Tooltester.Com reviews and informs the reader of all the advantages and disadvantages of websites, particularly Weebly.

There are many different times of assessments, and different questions come with each one. This infographic helps explain the different forms of assessments and breaks it down step by step so it is easy to follow. Week 5 talks about different forms of assessments and this will be a good tool to use during our peer team teaching.

Great benefits and ways to use multimedia in the classroom. The use of multimedia allows improvement of individual attention and group collaboration. The many different types of multimedia outlets and multimedia projects are represented.

A good summation of how portfolio assessments work and the pros and cons of portfolios.

This website gives definitions and examples of portfolio assessments. it also gives examples of different uses for this type of assessment as well as advantages in using portfolios.

This article goes into great detail describing the pros and cons of the use of BYOD in the classroom. It provided some ideas that I had never thought of.

This website defines technology integration and gives different examples of what that integration could mean. It also gives various examples of ways/games/activities to use for learning while using technology.

This Edutopia offers an easy to understand definition of technology integration and how to SUCCESSFULLY implement it. It also provides the reader with differing avenues and examples on how to use technology in the classroom.

An article about how to integrate technology into classrooms, and some examples of what to use

This website has another great list of technology integration resources, including lesson planning resources, general ed tech resources, and resources for writing technology grants. I chose this website because I think it is a great list of resources to look back on when I am a teacher to help me with technology integration.

This website provides resources that help with the integration of technology into the classroom. It list links with descriptions about the definition of technology integration, grants for technology, and even types of technologies that can be used.

This website evaluates technology as a tool for equality. It features many different devices that can be used for students who are in the general classroom, but have some sort of IEP. When teaching, teachers should be aware of devices that can help students who may need extra help. Teachers can provide additional instruction for these students through many forms of low to high level of complicated technology.

Article regarding how to build a PLN. Contains a chart and 2 screen caps in order to illustrate its point. Also has a helpful list of links that have been organized into a step-by-step process for starting a PLN.

This site covers the importance of PLNs within the topic of continuing education and independent learning. It discusses the importance of staying up to date and in communication with other professionals in the same field.

Effective communication is essential for building school-family partnerships. It constitutes the foundation for all other forms of family involvement in education.

This article explains some benefits of good parent-teacher relationships and gives some examples of ways to build this type of relationship. This would be good to look at when creating my own classroom.

A timeline of the political achievements of African-Americans from the years of 1951-2001. Great for any government class to review during Black History month.

A brief summary of the effects of technology in the classroom.

A brief summary of the effects of technology in the classroom.

Tons of "best of" lists

This article discusses the 9 levels of instruction. This will show how a teacher can be successful in their teaching and how to engage their students the most. This article has sub-categories that allow you to investigate each event of instruction.

This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. It also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.